Recommendations

Both lakorns came out in the same year and worth giving it a go.
If you liked SLAP/KISS genre and conflicting emotions of love/hate/revenge then recommend checking out this lakorn. Yes, the main female lead gets kidnapped to an island for the majority of the drama- turns out to have kidnapped the wrong person and you think you know what's going to happen. Its one of the first of it's kind. :)

Both mystery dramas deal with objects that allow the protagonists to "time travel". In both dramas their is a main couple that is somehow intertwined with each ever time.

Both series start with a conflict between a teacher and her student. In both series the student starts to have feelings for the teacher.

In both the main girl needs to tutor a spoilt rich guy and they can't stand each other.

Both are epic sageuk dramas about the life of a historic/legendary hero from Joseon dynasty. If you loved Yoon Kyun Sang in SFD Rebel is the drama you need!

Both are centered around a legendary masked heroic thief, who fights the rich and helps the poor. They are driven by revenge and a distinct sense of justice. They also have exceptionally good fighting skills. Also both involve an interesting father/son relationship as well as romance (Rebel has better romance than Iljimae imo).

However, I'd dare to say that Iljimae is a lighter watch than Rebel. Latter is more complex and involves more characters.

Storylines differ but both take place at a university and both have the attractive guy falling for the conventionally unattractive girl.

- Fantasy
- Good budget dramas
- Strong female leads
- Beautiful visuals
- Both share the reborn / revive theme
- Unconditional / forbidden / one sided love
- Sympathetic and interesting characters
- Beautiful costumes
- Hot leads
- Memory loss
- Great OST (though Ice fantasy's ost is slightly better)
- Lots of characters and character development
- Action takes place in multiple realms
- Multiple clans
- Multiple arcs / trials
- Tragedy

Both involve a young female chef and her enviroment as she strives to become better at her job.. both involve her competition with a male aspiring chef and the way that competition improves their life.

Both involve a narrow-minded aspiring female lead and her more gentle male counterpart (as both have the same profession).
Female leads have had dealt with harassment and the surrounding rumors about them and have become fierce.
It's about their work and home enviroment and the way they learn to adapt, allow people in.. and about their professional life with their colleagues.

Dramas about women and men in kitchen/restaurants. Both are favourite dramas that involve female chefs and their surroundings + their growt at professional level and how they manage to make the people surrounding them better humans trough cooking and competition.

- Both deal w/ young love and its growing pains.
- Both deal w/ the "re-education" of urban young people through hard labor in rural villages..... as part of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Similar subjects addressed differently ..... Under the Hawthorn Tree is a simple and elegant film of innocent love .... Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a film w/ a meaningful message, rebelling against the re-education.

Its a remake of the same drama with Jindachote Sean as Monthai and Supreeleela Esther as Bpeeyachat.

Both revolve around office politics and romance. Both are a great mixture of clever, cute, serious, funny etc. etc.

Thrilling events happen in a villa, somewhere on top of a mountain or in the depth of a forest, where many isolated people there face their death because of some intruders.